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Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics
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Books > Theology > Philosophy
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| Author/Artist: |
CLARE CARLISLE |
| ISBN / ID: |
9780691176598 |
| Publisher: |
Princeton University Pres |
| Binding: |
HARDBACK |
| Price: |
AU$49.99 |
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Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza?s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics.
Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics does not fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavour that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life.
Offering startling new insights into Spinoza?s famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our 'highest happiness' - to rest in God. |
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